CURRENT PROJECTS  

                    Frozen Soil      (Prof. Erland Schulson)

                   Mechanical Behavior      (Prof. Erland Schulson)
                           Fracture of ice under low confinement.
                          Frictional sliding across faults in ice.
                          Deformation of the arctic sea ice cover.
                          Tensile and compressive strength of ice: failure under multiaxial loading; scale effects.

                   Nanoindentation Measurements of Metamorphasized Snow (Prof. Ian Baker)
                           The microstructrual location and impurity effects in polar ice cores.
                            The structure and properties of river and cake ice.